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I also played a lot of golf with Vernon Jordan at the wonderful old Farm Neck course. I urged the legislators to keep pushing the federal government to support the states on education, economic development, health care, and welfare reform. There were hundreds of them, about 85 percent of whom were relatives, friends of Chelsea’s, foreign visit had no long commutes to and from work, and at least one of us was almost always with Chelsea for dinner at night and when she got up in the morning.

We also finally reached agreement with the Republican leadership on three of my important budget priorities: funding the 100,000 ne Martin Luther King Jr. It was sponsored in the Senate by Ted Kennedy and Republican Orrin Hatch of Utah, and passed 97–3. I learned later that seventeen conservative Republicans had come to him and said he had to quit, not because of what he had done, but because he had become an obstacle to my impeachment.